Festival Analysis: Laneway2013

Laneway’s BFFs

The 2013 Laneway lineup is one for BFFs – and we're not just talking about the bromantic love-in that is Japandroids. Here are some recent loved-up collabs:

Yeasayer and Bat for Lashes
Yeasayer’s Chris Keating and Ira Wolf Tuton contributed drum programming and bass to several songs on Bat For Lashes’ 2009 album Two Suns. And not just album tracks, the three songs with Yeasayer cameos were the album’s three singles Sleep Alone, Daniel, and Pearl's Dream.

Twerps and Real Estate
Melbourne’s Twerps and New Jersey’s Real Estate share a love for jangly Flying Nun pop, and on their joint US tour earlier this year even covered The Clean’s classic ‘Anything Could Happen’ on stage together at Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio.

Nicolas Jaar and Chet Faker, and Shlohmo
Nicolas Jaar has teamed up with two fellow Laneway dudes remixing both Chet Faker's Terms And Conditions and Shlohmo's Rained The Whole Time. We're looking forward to his remix of The Men.

Pitchfork gives this lineup a 7.7

If it's good enough for Pitchfork, it's good enough for us, right? We've tabled the album scores from each band's most recent records to come up with a mean for the festival – and it's just short of a high distinction at 7.7. (Yeasayer let the team down with a paltry 5.4.)

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no giant robots from japan?
i was really looking forward this festival but now's there's just no point.
i mean even if they brought over a a huge or medium sized robot it'd be okay but no, no fucking robots at all.

this is the kinda shit that loses you loyal festival goers, making promises then shitting all over the fans that made you!

The members of Alt-J have been working on An Awesome Wave for five years, and it shows. It's both overstuffed and messy, and so overworked that what life there may once have been now exists as a kind of primordial paste.